Set your VHS recorder for Tuesday 9 pm! HBO's new documentary will reveal the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Interestingly, recently there were BTC transfers out of some very old wallets without any activity for more than a decade, (15 MM dollars) Rumors says the "new" reveal will be Len Sassaman. He fits the bill and died by suicide in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/...y-will-name-len-sassaman-as-satoshi-nakamoto/
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If his wife is suddenly transferring millions in Bitcoins, or if Craig Wright is going to sue a dead man, then he IS Satoshi... "And yet a lot of circumstantial evidence points to Len: Satoshi's working hours (European time zone, Len lived in Belgium), Satoshi's increased activity during academic summer vacations (Len worked at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), the fact that the famous "Times" headline was only issued in the printed overseas edition (so not seen on the web or the UK newsstands), Satoshi's liking the British English phrases (Len's tweets were like that). I think if a proper language analysis were done using Satoshi's texts and Len's writing, there would be a strong match. Such computer-assisted analyses started in the 1970s on some questionable Shakespeare texts, later for some work on James Joyce's prose. Today those tools have advanced enormously, esp. with all the AI help."
Interesting guy. Any conspiracy theories regarding his death? I bet there is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman
Not really. He had depression and he also criticized BTC. But he was a working friend of Hal Finney, he could have easily picked Finney's neighbour's name. You know Dorian Nakamoto... Another good theory: (having trouble posting the link, original was deleted) www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1bxqnpq/new_theory_on_satoshi_nakamoto/ Put this link into the web archive. http://web.archive.org
Going through the work of Cullen Hoback, I can see that he made a few interesting docs. I didn't know anything about him. This one looks interesting as well.
This is the text that has been deleted from Reddit Figured I’d post this here looking for help, more sources and validation in this. A video of Hal Finney giving a presentation surfaced from Crypto 98 I found the event program info page and found that there was a man there named Satoshi Hada and Toshiaki Tanaka https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/646763.706338 We can finally pinpoint that there was a Satoshi in the same building with Hal Finney at a Crypto event in 1998. I then Googled "Satoshi Hada Naka Moto" I found one tweet who also pieced this together with no replies at the time. He also put the names of the research papers together He linked a research paper with the following names on it talking about public and private keys (you have to view it in archive.org) https://web.archive.org/web/2023061...com/researcher/view_person_subpage.php?id=899 Satoshi: SATOSHI Hada Naka: Toshiaki TaNAKA Moto: Naohiko UraMOTO Now put all 3 names together - Satoshi Naka Moto I then started researching the names and things like projects and timelines all check out. It is funny that while all these names talk about public, private keys, blockchain and crypto, NONE talk about Bitcoin. I then googled "satoshi hada" Cypherpunk to see if he was part of that and an email surfaced here from December 2001. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xenc-xmlp-tf/2001Dec/0001.html I then went to Satoshi Hada's twitter here https://twitter.com/satoshihada His tweet from 2017 caught my eye, someone made a comment in backwards text in 2021 saying Satoshin Nakamoto almost 3 years to the day of my discovery It looks possible that Satoshi Nakamoto is a combination of at least 3 people that were IBM researchers involved in early blockchain research work that predates bitcoin. OR it can be another person or group that admired their work and took a piece of each of their names. I believe Hal Finney was not Satoshi Nakamoto and he also did not know him personally based on interviews with Fran Finney. I believe he was on that mailing list that when the white paper went out, saw it and got involved. I also feel these 3 men worked on it and moved on to other things with their lives and kept it a secret!